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Serbia's justice minister says Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb commander convicted of genocide for the Srebrenica massacre, will be buried with military and state honours; Mladic died in The Hague serving a life sentence, and Belgrade awaits details on the release of his body.
Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb general who led forces that shelled Sarajevo and oversaw the Srebrenica massacre, died at age 84 while serving a life sentence after being convicted of genocide by an international tribunal.
Thousands of people participated in a peace march through the forests of eastern Bosnia to commemorate the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, Europe's only acknowledged genocide since World War II. The march retraced the route taken by Bosniak men and boys who were slaughtered as they tried to flee Srebrenica. The event comes amid ongoing ethnic tensions, with Bosnian Serbs pushing for more independence. Despite denials from Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik, two UN courts have ruled that genocide took place in Srebrenica. Over 6,600 victims have been found and buried at a memorial cemetery, with 30 more to be interred on Tuesday.